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It is not probable that the reader will be satisfied with any of these solutions, and contemporary philosophers, even rationalistically minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact.
It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste of the nation.
Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.
I don't think we can rule out a wave, I think a Democratic takeover is possible but not probable.
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
At times truth may not seem probable.
[Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.
You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.
It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.
Quality-of-life policing is based on probable cause - an officer has witnessed a crime personally or has a witness to the crime.
I do have to earn a living, so I'm conscious of probable reactions from readers, but the most important one is still the awareness that if I'm not enjoying a story, the reader won't either.
The sea has now changed from it's natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Often one postulates that a priori, all states are equally probable. This is not true in the world as we see it. This world is not correctly described by the physics which assumes this postulate.
There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment.
Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.
It is more than probable that the average man could, with no injury to his health, increase his efficiency fifty percent.
If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration.
Everyone has a need for significance; and if we can't make that possible, or even probable, in our society, then it will be obtained in destructive ways.
It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.
Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.
I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.
It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.
It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended Consequences.
It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.
Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.
So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that's suspicion, it's lower than probable cause. And then we have a right to call immigration and check you out.
Remember that the future is not somewhere we are going, it is something we are creating. Everyday we do things that make some futures more probable and others less likely.
The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.
I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.
A person who is psychic is following a line of probability to see a probable future; but it can change. Another causal fact will interfere and that future won't happen.
School improvement is not a mystery. Incremental, even dramatic improvement is not only possible but probable under the right conditions.
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.
For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true.
Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and what you believe in are not only possible but also very probable.
I think the vast majority of the American people say you shouldn't be able to collect my phone records if I'm not suspicious, if you don't have probable cause.
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.
It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.
It is probable that Facebook boasts the broadest, deepest, and most comprehensive dataset of human information, interests, and activity ever collected.
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.
That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.
Variant: When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
It is probable that for a long time to come the mass of mankind in civilized countries will find it both necessary and advantageous to labor for wages, and to accept the condition of hired laborers.
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
